Description
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1961. First edition, 8vo, inscribed by Spark to front free-endpaper: To Robin, Love & wonkies[?] Mummy xxx, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price clipped but a little soiled and bumped
Footnote
Provenance: From the estate of the Late Mr Samuel H. L. Spark, known as Robin
Note: Probably Muriel Spark's best known, and most widely read, novel. The eponymous heroine is said to have been partly based on Christina Kay, one of Spark's schoolteachers at James Gillespie's School for Girls in Edinburgh. A photograph of Muriel Spark's school year can be found in lot 115.